[Infowarrior] - DiFi charges ahead w/her delusions

[Richard Forno]

Dianne Feinstein Still A Believer In Collecting All Phone Records; Pretends That Such Collection Has Stopped Terrorists

from the not-very-convincing dept

It would appear that Senator Dianne Feinstein's newly discovered anger about the CIA spying on the metadata of her staffers hasn't yet lead to the recognition of why the American public is upset about the NSA collecting all of our metadata. 

Despite two different executive branch review boards and a federal judge declaring the program to likely be both unconstitutional and illegal (though, yes, other courts have disagreed) and (importantly) President Obama asking Congress to figure out a way to end the program, Feinstein still insists the program is great. Even more bizarre, she claims that it has helped stop terrorist attacks -- an argument that even the NSA is no longer making after its original claims about that were totally debunked. However, a new statement from Feinstein on the program insists that it's legal and Constitutional, and has helped stop terrorists. Because she says so…

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140321/12430826650/dianne-feinstein-still-believer-collecting-all-phone-records-pretends-that-such-collection-has-stopped-terrorists.shtml

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